How Has Literature Changed America

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Literature has changed America by challenging people to change their mind. This paper is going to be about how Literature Made a Difference in America. Literature changed the way people think socially and Individually. It changed America Socially because people started to think more of what and how they want the world to be. People thought of peace, just being able to walk outside as a white or black person and just sit on the porch without anybody threatening them to go back inside or without somebody running up on their porch to beat you up. The thought of that made people want to change, It made them want to change the thought of how people looked and how people dressed. It made people more open minded instead of thinking like others.

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